James Atlay
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James Atlay | |
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| Bishop of Hereford | |
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Hereford |
| In office | 1868–1894 |
| Predecessor | Renn Hampden |
| Successor | John Percival |
| Personal details | |
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| Buried | Hereford Cathedral |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Spouse | Frances Turner (m.1859) |
| Education | Oakham School |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
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James Atlay (3 July 1817 – 24 December 1894) was an English churchman, Bishop of Hereford from 1868 to 1894.
Life
James Atlay was born in Wakerley, Northamptonshire, the son of Henry Atlay (Rector of Great Casterton) and Elizabeth Rayner Hovell.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. His younger brother Brownlow Atlay (1832–1912) was Archdeacon of Calcutta.
Educated at Oakham School, Atlay entered St John's College, Cambridge, where he held a fellowship from 1846 to 1859.[1] He was vicar of Madingley, near Cambridge, from 1847 to 1852, and Queen's preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 1857. He occupied the position of a senior tutor in his college at the time he was elected in 1859 to the vicarage of Leeds. Atlay was appointed a canon of Ripon Cathedral in 1861.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
In 1867, he refused the bishopric of Calcutta, but in the following year accepted the bishopric of Hereford, in succession to Renn Hampden.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
He possessed great organising ability and an attractive personality and was described by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, as "the most beautiful combination of enthusiasm, manliness and modesty."Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Family
Atlay married in 1859 Frances Turner, younger daughter of William Martin, a major of the Bengal Army. Atlay died on 24 December 1894 aged 77 and is buried in Hereford Cathedral where he has a magnificent memorial in the north transept,Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. the work of James Forsyth.[2]
His eldest son James Beresford Atlay (1860–1912), known as J. B. Atlay, was author of The Trial of Lord Cochrane (1897), Famous Trials of the 19th Century (1899), and other works of legal history.[3] Among his other children were George William Atlay, who was murdered by a party of Ngoni people while attached to the Universities' Mission to Central Africa at Likoma, Lake Nyasa;Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and Charles Cecil Atlay, who died of wounds sustained at Ladysmith in early 1900, during the Second Boer War.[4]
On the completion of his episcopate, Atlay was presented with a picture of himself by Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne from the Diocese of Hereford. In 1893, another portrait was painted by John Collier. Both were in the possession of Mrs Atlay, and replicas of the latter were hung in the Bishop's Palace at Hereford, and in the combination room at St John's College, Cambridge.[5]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Atlay, James (ATLY836J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Forsyth Brothers: Monument to Bishop Atlay". Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Obituary: James Beresford Atlay". The Times. 23 November 1912. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crisp, Frederick Arthur, ed. (1906). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 14. London: Privately printed. p. 69.
Sources
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